Discovered 2008 Mar. 12 by EURONEAR at the European Southern Observatory.

Harald Alexandrescu (1945-2005) was a Romanian astronomer, renowned for his public outreach activity. A specialist in celestial mechanics, geodesy and satellites, he worked at the Astronomical Institute, the Institute of Geodesy and founded the Institute of Gravitation and Space Sciences in Bucharest.

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